Re: Daimo:n 'Divider' <-> Bog 'Divider' too?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
>
> > > The vowel /e/, being --almost-- the only vowel in the PIE
> > > phonological
> > > inventory, is almost certainly derived from a merger of

different

> > > vowels in pre-PIE.
> > >
> >
> > Why such a drastical reduction (all vowels > a single one)?

Not

> > to can express what you could previously expressed?
> >
> > In the opposite direction: there are 'Others' saying exactly

the

> > contrary : the oldest stage of PRE-PIE was one with no vowels.
> >
> > This supposition seems more logical: if there was a single

vowel

> > at one stage it cannot served for any differentiation.
> >
> > So for this reason is more logical to suppose, that this vowel

is

> > derived from an initial stage : where it was only a rithmic
> > segmentation of different consonantic clusters (ex: C^C^C^,

C^C^CC^

> > etc...).
>
>
> Dirk Boutkan: On the etymology of Dutch 'zijpe'
> after proposing that that word is a loan from Berber,
> "
> In most Berber dialects originally short vowels have become schwa,
> while the long vowels were abbreviated.
> "
>
>
> Torsten
>

Here is another shift :
short vowel > schwa
long vowels > shot vowels
A process where finally the long vowels disppears...